Tag: Russia
‘You’ll lose’, Russian agents told Assad as they organised his escape
Russia organised for Bashir al-Assad to flee to Moscow via its air base on the Syrian coast as rebels broke into Damascus on...
Russia transported Assad in 'most secured way,' Russian Deputy FM tells NBC News
(Reuters) - Russia transported Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted as Syria's president by a lightning rebel offensive, very securely to Russia, the country's...
Syria – latest: Russia scrabbles to secure bases after Assad overthrow as Damascus prison tunnels searched
The Assad regime’s brutal half-century-long grip on Syria has come to an end, in a stunning defeat by opposition insurgents who seized control...
Fall of the House of Assad, with a billion-pound fortune and blood on their hands
He didn’t look like a dictator. Awkward and gangly, his mannerisms unassuming, at least until he opened his mouth, Bashar al-Assad exuded none...
Russia's has used its hypersonic Oreshnik missile for the first time. What are its capabilities?
The silent black-and-white surveillance camera video of the Russian missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was brief but chilling: Six huge...
Alone and broke against a renewed insurgency, is Assad's rule at risk of collapse?
BEIRUT (AP) — The last time Syrian President Bashar Assad was in serious trouble was 10 years ago, at the height of the...